The Analyst in the Inner City, Second Edition: Race, Class, and Culture Through a Psychoanalytic Lens

by Altman; Neil

• ISBN13: 9780881635003
• ISBN10: 0881635006
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-10-06
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Opening with updated, detailed clinical vignettes and case presentations, Altman greatly expands his section on race, both in psychoanalysis and the larger social world, and proffers a more fluid view of its structure. A brand new section examines the impact of local and global events outside of the public clinic on the clinical work itself and the socioeconomic categories of its patients, including group dynamics in child and adolescent psychotherapeutic interventions, APA's relationship to CIA interrogation practices, and psychoanalytic views on war and suicide bombing. Ranging from the day-to-day work in a public clinic in the South Bronx to considerations of events far outside the clinic's doors (but closer than one might think), this book is a timely revision of a groundbreaking work in psychoanalytic literature, expanding the import of psychoanalysis from the centers of analytical thought to the margins of clinical need. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xv
Background	p. 1
Clinical experiences from a public clinic	p. 3
Theoretical, historical, and sociological background	p. 33
Race, class, and culture	p. 81
Social Class	p. 83
Whiteness	p. 95
Psychoanalysis in black and white	p. 115
Culture, ethnicity, and psychoanalysis	p. 151
Thinking systemically and psychoanalytically at the same time	p. 173
A psychoanalytic look at the bifurcation of public and private practice	p. 175
Thinking systemically and psychoanalytically at the same time: Psychoanalyzing the context	p. 189
Toward overcoming the split between the psychic and the social: Bringing psychoanalysis to community-based clinical work	p. 213
A psychoanalytic-systemic perspective on psychotherapy with children and adolescents	p. 227
Psychoanalysis and society	p. 269
Manic society: Towards the depressive position	p. 271
Psychoanalysis in the political world: The case of the American Psychological Association and torture	p. 293
Psychoanalysis in the political world: Suicide bombing	p. 305
Psychoanalysis as a potential force for social change	p. 323
References	p. 333
Author Index	p. 347
Subject Index	p. 353
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